The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-09-29

$50 stf you have never studled now 10 teaCn
school, It would perhaps be best for you
not to come to be examined. It is not
enough for you 10 know simply what to
teach the time has come when profess.
ionsl educators are expected to know
how to teach. In other words, are yon 9
professional steacher2 That's the long
and short Of the whole matter. Are you
teaching mere ely for the small amount Of
money shere;is in It? Or is it your life
work: The lawyer wlo knows the law,
but does not. know how to apply it, is not
the man With whom most sensible clients
would trust their financial affairs. It is
not enough, then, to know simply what
to teach, bit how to teach it a man
may know every formula laid down in
the Mate7ia 4tedica and yet as practi;
TONER be . perfect disgrace to his profess.
sion. Let us be sure that We get the
sdistiS ctisn Between the auaat and the ho,0.
Why is it that some men beat about all
their days without making sny reputa.
stion - teachsrs9 Why is it that the
Longer thsy make teaching their. voca-.
tiSn, ithe more isksome it becomes to
them, and the less good they accompiish Z
To:our mind il IS plain enough. All the
knowledge Of text. books possible to be
sattaiaed IN this world will not make a
! man aulccessfnl teacher: there must be
5profsssicnal pride; there must be that
sfreshnssa and yiyacity which come from
"a keqnsnt communion with those great
spirits whose lives have been given to
thss ssuork OF instruction, and whose best
thoughts and plans are beautifully for
smnlated and given to US for our appro.
pristioa. No wonder men wear out, no
wonder they fail as teachers and move
around from place to place until the
world geb tired of the monotony their
steady steps create, when there is no
higher ambition to be found within their
breasts than that which moves the lowest
order Of creation-tha which moves the
muscle and the brain to supply the body
with food.
The world has been duped in many
ways, bnt never more profoundly hum
bugged than BY some men who profess to
hesteschers. And yet when an honest
effort is made to improve the class Of
teachers who have charge Of the public
schools; men throw up their hands in
holy horror, and say, ego slow, this isn't
the way they used to do" Every new
ides, every novel plan is looked upon
with distrust, the face grows pale. and
with an: ominons shake Of the head they
mutter, s.that won't do, that won't do"
sIt IS well to be careful, it is right to
guard the old Landmarks, but it is not
we'll 10 throw ones self in the way Of
progress-it:is SIC not.well to be an out and
1 out, professional obstructionist. There
are such men. How Columbus was
ridiculsd when he announced his theory
Of The rotundity Of the earth. How men
laughed az Franklin and derided his
holiness, not 80 much because they
thought Of Ffanklin's safety, but they
feared he mas getting too far out Of the
-old track, he had no right to appropriate
to mans use that which belonged to the
heavens. How Fulton was treated by
The cowardly bystanders when his steam.
boat failed to work just as he thought il
would on its trial trip up the Hudson
There were hundreds Of men there who
sail, told yon So" How did they
4 fseE HEsn Fulton,s inyents overy was
/ Iiinslly triumphant? Wequote FROM pr